Volume 5, Number 1
July 1999

Publications Noted

William M. Alexander (emeritus professor of world food politics, California Polytechnic State University, wakerala@aol.com). 1998. Female sexuality denied, fatal daughter syndrome, and high fertility maintained. Michigan Sociological Review, Fall.

NEDA (Netherlands Development Assistance). 1997. Rights of women to the natural resources, land and water. Women and Development Working Paper 2. The Hague: Special Program on Women and Development, Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (In collaboration with Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, Mirjam de Bruijn, Han van Dijk, Gerti Hesseling, Barbara van Koppen, and Lyda Res.) The publication lays out a sociolegal framework that looks at state law and legal pluralism, rights, and obligations, and at ways to secure and retain rights. It then describes women's experiences with rights to land and water and suggests ways to strength women's rights. Copies available from Information Desk, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, P.O. Box 20061, 2500 EB, The Hague, Netherlands. A French version is available, and it may become available in Spanish as well.

A recent issue (No. 23) of ID21News (the newsletter of the ID21 Development Research reporting service, hosted by the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, England) is devoted to gender issues. Article titles include

• Empty desks, empty futures: The curse of classroom gender gaps
• The culture trap: Reasons why girls drop out in Ghana
• Getting gender onto the policy agenda
• Caribbean enigma: boys achieving badly
• Girls, schools and limits to change
• Does poverty cause gender inequality in schooling?
• Gender gap in India's schools
• Sites for sore eyes.